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TIL : Cold temperatures weaken nasal immunity, making us more vulnerable to viruses. A mere 5°C drop in nasal tissue temperature reduces immune response by nearly half.

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vpVR TIL if you ask a Korean “How old are you?” they’ll count from when they were conceived, not born
yVbrJ TIL in 1900 William Schmidt, a gold miner, began hand-digging a half-mile tunnel in the Mojave Desert to transport ore for processing. After 20 years the ore could easily be transported on a new road, but Schmidt spent another two decades years finishing the tunnel, which was never used.
o4bY TIL that when The Artist Formerly Known As Prince changed is name to the ‘Love Symbol’ in 1993, Warner Bros. had to organize a mass mailing of floppy disks with a custom font in order to use the symbol in print media.
wLy6o TIL in the 60s, NASA gave dolphins LSD in an attempt to get them to speak. A female researcher lived in a partially submerged house with one of these dolphins. It would become sexually aroused and attack her, so she started giving it handjobs
4XD75 TIL in April of 1968, Jane Elliot did a racial experiment where she turned her third grade class of students against one another based solely on the color of their eyes.